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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.6
People
Edward Ruscha, American (Omaha, NE born 1937)
Title
Hotel
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1962
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/213434

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil and black ink on wove paper
Dimensions
29.2 × 35.9 cm (11 1/2 × 14 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: blue ballpoint, u.l.: E. RUSCHA
  • inscription: upper right, blue ballpoint ink, in artist's hand
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite, signed, in artist's hand: Ed Ruscha
  • blind stamp: STRATHMORE USE EITHER SIDE

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ed Ruscha; [Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London] sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Turvey D1962.06

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Ed Ruscha
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.6
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Donna De Salvo and Paul Schimmel, Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62, exh. cat., ed. Russell Ferguson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. (Los Angeles and New York, 1992), p. 248, repr. p. 62 (color)
  • Linda Norden, Landmark Pictures: Ed Ruscha/Andreas Gursky, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2000), under checklist, n.p.
  • Richard D. Marshall, Ed Ruscha, Phaidon Press Limited (London and New York, 2003), repr. p. 25 (color)
  • Lisa Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, New York (New York, 2014), p. 84, cat. no. D1962.06, ill. (color)
  • Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), pp. 50-51, cat. 6, ill. (color)
  • Leo G. Mazow, Edward Hopper and the American Hotel, exh. cat., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA, 2019), pp. 172-173, 192, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 12/06/1992 - 03/07/1993; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, 04/03/1993 - 06/20/1993; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 07/16/1993 - 10/03/1993
  • Ed Ruscha: New Paintings, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, 06/25/1998 - 07/30/1998
  • Landmark Pictures: Ed Ruscha/Andreas Gursky, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 01/08/2000 - 03/19/2000; Sert Gallery, Cambridge, 06/08/2000 - 07/16/2000
  • Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/08/2006 - 02/25/2007
  • Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/03/2015 - 01/03/2016; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, 02/13/2016 - 04/13/2016
  • Edward Hopper and the American Hotel, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 10/26/2019 - 02/23/2020

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